Finding your divine purpose is very different from setting your goals

In Chapter 9 of The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity, Edwene Gaines writes:

 

A goal is a desire with an end result, but your divine purpose is really a way of living. For example, a goal might be to learn to paint with watercolors, but your divine purpose might be to bring joy to peoples' lives through your art. Another goal might be to get a PhD, but the divine purpose would be to live in the world of the intellect, the world of ideas.

Your goals have tangible finite deadlines, but your divine purpose is an intangible frame around you that you will be working with and growing with for the rest of your life.

Years ago, a teacher explained to Edwene that if she wanted to fully realize her potential in this lifetime the first thing she had to do was look out upon her world (understanding that we all look out through our own consciousness to see different worlds) and notice all the things that need healing, or fixing, or transforming.

Very frankly she says, in her world, she saw a multitude of areas where we as a human family needed to direct our attention, change our priorities, get rid of the systems and concepts that were not working, and begin anew. Just to name a few examples,she believes that some new thinking needs to be done about the way we take care of our children, treat the environment, feed the hungry, share with the homeless, and provide for the disabled, the elderly, the imprisoned, the hurt, the abused, and the lonely.

The task, then, her teacher instructed, is that after looking carefully at the world, You must pick out one thing that you feel needs transforming, something that would be fun for you to get involved in repairing, shifting, restructuring, fixing, and perfecting. Please note she uses the word fun. This is not about martyrdom or great personal sacrifice. It is about focus, joy, and a sense of purposeful possible achievement.

Next, you must take a bold step and make a 100 percent commitment to "fixing" the problem you have identified, followed by devoting your energies, time, talents, skills, and money to transforming that one piece of the earthly puzzle. Even as you're working toward solving the problem, keep in mind that what is really important is not whether the problem ever gets solved; it's that you are working toward the solution with dedication and persistence.

We are all children of God. But children eventually grow up. And the evolving and advancing you will do when you begin to live according to your divine purpose is part of that growing up.

When you choose your divine purpose, you are framing your life with meaning.